Tumbling Close Terrace and Mitchell's Mill

Tumbling Close terrace was situated near to the railway bridge, known as the Three Arch Bridge, which stood close to where the Towngate Petrol Station stands today. The bridge carried the LNER railway line from Ossett Station to Wakefield Westgate Station. The bridge and the terrace of house was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Towngate housing development.

The Tumbling Close terrace of eight dwellings was still occupied in 1961 by the likes of Raymond Parker, James Bilton, Fred Scholes, Colin Oldroyd, Michael J. Noonan, Derek Skevington and Leonard Fenton.

The sketch shows Tumbling Close Terrace on the left of the sketch with Mitchell’s Mill on the right. Littlefield Road ran between allotments to join Tumbling Close just off the sketch to the left. Ossett Holy Trinity Church can be seen in the right background. A stream can be seen running alongside the mill and aside the lane which, like the stream, ran from the back of Denton’s Mill on Dale Street down into the dam at Spring Mill.